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Christopher Phelps is a historian of modern American political and intellectual life. Born near Washington, D.C., he has taught at universities in five countries: Britain, the United States, Poland, Hungary, and Canada. He is author of the intellectual biography Young Sidney Hook (Cornell, 1997; 2d ed., Michigan, 2005) and Radicals in America (Cambridge, 2015), a comprehensive history of the American left since the Second World War co-authored with Howard Brick.

His articles have appeared in The Journal of American History, The Journal of American Studies, The Journal of the History of Sexuality, and other journals, and in such popular outlets as The Financial Times, Times Higher Education,The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Nation, CNN.com, and Salon.

In addition to several awards for excellence in historical and political writing, Phelps has received two Fulbright fellowships and research grants from the New York Public Library, the Huntington Library, and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Michigan.

His current research agenda is primarily focused upon sexuality at midcentury.

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